Kevin Bishop

Yeah.

is his name.

That's it.

on with the email themes, we've had one in from Sarah Lockyer.

who writes in episode three, did you clock that someone shouted partridge you wanker just before he interviewed the crane operator or that Kevin Bishop was the voice of Paul, the crane operator.

Also in episode four with his 360 degree degree camera is he slightly taking the piss out of the winter walks format.

Bye for now.

Great email.

Thank you, Sarah.

I hadn't clocked the Partridge-Wanker shout-out or that Kevin Bishop was the voice of Paul.

And I feel confident that they probably are taking the piss.

That's lovely,

isn't it? I spoke to Kevin Bishop.

Oh, right.

He's a really lovely, very funny man.

Uh, we had, uh, Norman Pace, or is it Hale? Uh, [laughs] from Hale and Pace.

Uh, and a bit of Kevin Bishop.

But in the end, uh, we were most excited because it's where the band Splodgeness Abounds comes from.

They're most famous for doing "Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps," which meant Jim was our winner with this connection.

The one he warned them about.

Well, funnily enough, so Jim Hawkins is played by Kevin Bishop.

He grew up to be a very... prolific comedian in england um he has got a lot of little tv shows and and voice acting and just all sorts of stuff but he was in an episode of a show or a spin-off of a show that you and i love he was in an episode of beyond paradise oh which is a spin-off of death in paradise which is one of our favorites

I did not know that.

On Last Word this week, the life and career of Tim Curry.

Fellow actor Kevin Bishop recalls their time on the Muppet Treasure Island together.

Also Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general who was convicted of genocide for ordering the Srebrenica massacre.

And Violet Hensley, the fiddle player and luthier known as the Stradivarius of the Ozarks, who lived to be 109 years old.

He was born in Warrington in 1946.

His first acting job came after university in the original London production of the equally groundbreaking rock musical Hair in 1968.

As his reputation grew, he brought Stephen King's terrifying clown Pennywise to life in the 1990 TV version of It, voiced the animated naturalist Nigel Thornberry in the much-loved children's series The Wild Thornberries, and starred opposite a young Kevin Bishop and a bunch of furry puppets in the 1996 film Muppet Treasure Island.

Kevin was 14 at the time and was making his film debut.